The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-04-10

we bespeak for him the energetic support
of every Democrat in the District. Schweil-
er admits thathe hasn't been all that be
SHOULD have been in the past by promising
to do better in the future. Do we dare to
ask the people of the Sixth District to take
his word for it, and senu him back to the
Board of Works? To the thousands of
working men who read the SUNDAY Morn
ING NEWS, we desire to say: Do not be beguil-
ed by the siren voice of Independent Labor
nominations. The Democratic Party is the
workingmen's party. The workingmen own
it, and they control Dit. 1t exists mainly for
them. Do not help the workingmen's enc
mics into Office by throwing away your
Democratic votes on Independent nomina-
tons and so electing Repub licans.
Senator Edwards's single year in the
Senate has been fruitful in results. One
of the most notable things he accomplished
| during the session followed the introduce
ton of his Joint Resolution directing the
| State Comptroller and State Treasurer to
pay over to the municipalities the moneys
collected for local taxes from the railroads.
The State collects from the railroads the
local taxes with the State taxes, but has
not paid the local taxes to the cities and
towns to which they belong, because of the
contest against the enforcement of the
railroad tax law. If the law had been held
unconstitutional, the State would have
been liable to the railroads fer the
amount taken from them and if it
| had been paid over to the municipalities
she might have found it difficult to have
got it back. So, except 500, 900 which the
Board of finance induced the State Off
Gals to hand over recently, the sums col
lected for local taxes have bee allowed to
lay in the State Treasury. Mr., Edwariss
Joint Resolution was designed to enforce
| its payment to the communities for which
it had been collected. The Joint Resolu-
ton had scarcely been introduced before
the States Financial officers came forward
to say that they were willing to bind the
State to make the payments; and at their
| instance the Senate Committee on Ways
and Means introduced an act, amending
the Railroad Tax act, SO as to make it con-
form to the demands of the Senator from
Hudson. Jersey City will realize hand
somely and Immediately from the move.
| We trust. for the honor OF this commun-
! ity, for the integrity of cur schools, and for
his own reputation, that Mayor Cleveland
does not contemplate making some of the
appointments to fill vacancies in the School
Board that rumor says he contemplates.
| appoint the gentlemen whose terms are
about to expire. They have shown singu-
lar fitness for the duties of their places,
and have brought the public school service
up to plane of efficiency and cleanliness
that had not marked it for many years, at
least, before. IF he cannot be persuaded
to do that, we hope he will not be guilty of
the folly of going to the other extreme,
and of picking out men whose morals or
whose culture, or want of one or tho other,
utterly unfit them for the position. 1t
would be little short of direct insult to
the community to put back into the con-
troll of the schools any of the men whose
disgraceful administration of their offices
three or four years ago prodded the people
| to GUST them unceremoniously, and by a
decisive majority, from their places. No
public board in the city was ever SO
directly and empha tically condemned as
was the last election School Board; and it
cannot be true that the Mayor proposes to
restore one at least of the head-devils Of
the old regime to the place from which he
has once been driven in dlshonor.
The Republican press of the State as in
a narrowing state of uncertainty as to Judge
McGill's ability to fulfill the duties of the
| CHARACTERISTIC. They are probably not
| sincere in Saying it. Tuey say it so as to
| find fault with the Democratic Governor.
If they are sincere, in their expressions of
doubt. they don't know Judge McGill
AS lawyer, legislator and judge, he has
shown himself equal to any task he has
| undertaken. He comes of brainy and
cultured family, and he will easily adapt
himself to his new position. The ambi-
tious men are the men who make the world
go around; and all things are possible to
| the one who has talent with ambition. The
4 mors we think of it the better are we con-
WINGED that Governor Green could not pos
sibly have made better appointment than
this of Judge McGill to the chief Judicial
| position in the State.
We notice in many of our exchanges long
articles devoted to a statement of what